by David Brooks | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s been a lot of grumbling in recent years from researchers about the business and information-sharing practices of the companies that publish scholarly journals: The basic complaint is that while scientists write the articles and do peer review for free,...
by David Brooks | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
As far as I’m concerned, the big problem with the Internet of Things is security. With umpty-ump different companies fighting for attention with products that link you online, everybody’s going to concentrate on features and price and ignore security and...
by David Brooks | Jun 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 7 to June 14. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Providing of Nozzle for Liquid-Cooled Plasma Arc Torch Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
by David Brooks | Jun 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
An organization called SciLine, which links journalists with scientists, hosted a terrific webinar this week about vaccines for COVID-19 – how they work, how they’re being made, and what types are being pursued. If you’re at all curious about this...
by David Brooks | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Tuesday at a regularly scheduled press conference, the director of Health and Human Services, Lori Shibinette, said New Hampshire would not using apps on mobile phones as part of its efforts to track the spread of COVID-19. “We have looked at different apps … We just...
by David Brooks | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
It exasperates me that we’re so slow to set up some form of time-of-use rates for electricity, since that’s such a straightforward way to get people to shift when we demand power, making it easier to balance a clean grid. The power of market incentives,...